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Bert Williams as Shylock Homestead in 'In Dahomey'

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Bert Williams as Shylock Homestead in 'In Dahomey'

by Cavendish Morton
platinotype print, 1903
6 1/2 in. x 4 3/4 in. (164 mm x 119 mm)
Given by the photographer's son, Cavendish Morton, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x126396

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  • Cavendish Morton (1874-1939), Photographer, actor and film director. Artist or producer associated with 115 portraits, Sitter associated with 15 portraits.

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Current affairs

Emmeline Pankhurst forms the militant organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union, campaigning for greater rights for women and to secure them the vote. Its members were known as 'suffragettes', and adopted the slogan of 'Deeds, not words'.
Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary to campaign for tariff reform and an end to free trade, a key economic issue which splits the Conservative party.

Art and science

Henry James publishes The Ambassadors. Autobiographical in tone, it movingly and humorously traces the conversion of the American Lewis Lambert Strether, sent to Paris to find his widowed fiancee Mrs Newsome's wayward son Chad, to European culture.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the leading Scottish arts and crafts designer and architect, designs the Willow tea rooms in Glasgow for his patron, Miss Catherine Cranston.

International

The Bolsheviks (meaning 'the majority'), a faction of the exiled Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, are formed after splitting from the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in London.
After gaining independence following the end of the Spanish-American war, Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence at Guantánamo Bay.

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Daniel Atkinson

19 May 2022, 21:00

Hello,
I am writing the biography of George W. Walker (1872-1911), partner of Bert Williams. The photo session was in late August of 1903, following their command performance at the palace. I know this because I have one rotograph (not in your collection) that were made on the same day that features, Ada Guiguesse who had recently assumed the role of Pansy and the specialty hit “Brown Skin Baby Mine,” previously performed by Abbie Mitchell Cook who was on maternity leave and headed back the toe US in early September.